Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau

Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau is the Grace Wahba Professor and Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor in the Computer Sciences Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he has served since 2000. He currently holds the positions of Director of the School of Computer, Data & Information Sciences and Special Advisor to the Provost on Computing, following his tenure as Department Chair from 2019 to 2023. Arpaci-Dusseau received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley in 1999, an M.S. from the same institution in 1996, and a B.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 1993 (summa cum laude). His career includes visiting positions at Google, Stanford University, EPFL, and the University of Michigan.

Arpaci-Dusseau's research focuses on storage and computer systems. He co-leads the ADvanced Systems Laboratory (ADSL) with Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau, having mentored 32 Ph.D. students. Their work has garnered significant recognition, including the 2018 ACM SIGOPS Mark Weiser Award, ACM Fellowship (2020), AAAS Fellowship (2023), Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professorship (2022), multiple FAST Best Paper Awards (2004–2020), FAST Test-of-Time Award (2022), EuroSys Best Paper (2014), SOSP Best Paper (2011), and USENIX ATC Best Paper (2009). In education, he has received the Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award (2016), SACM Professor-of-the-Year (seven times), and Carolyn Rosner Excellent Educator Award (2011). He co-authored the influential textbook Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces (OSTEP), freely available and used at hundreds of institutions worldwide with millions of downloads annually. Notable publications include "Symbiosis: The Art of Application and Kernel Cache Cooperation" (FAST 2024), "Revealing the Unstable Foundations of eBPF-Based Kernel Extensions" (EuroSys 2025), and "WiscSort: External Sorting for Byte-Addressable Storage" (VLDB 2023). Many ADSL innovations are incorporated into commercial systems.

Professional Email: remzi@cs.wisc.edu